The internet is filled with things. Here is one of them.
Are We Watching The Internet Die?2024 Mar 13
Linked is yet another article which begins by bemoaning the rise of content aggregators and the scam inherent in the operations of a site like reddit. That's not interesting. Yet in the later paragraphs things pick up as the author digs into the ultimate problem with "generative AI" – that we are watching it begin to enter into a feedback loop, training new models on "content" inadvertently created by other models, not on actual human work. This, the author points out, is effectively freezing AI models in time in 2023, the last year before generated content exploded and overwhelmed old-fashioned manual efforts.
Fear not, fellow internet spectator, as the brandensite will remain gloriously AI-free while we eat our popcorn watching web society burn to the ground before datacenter-backed climate change makes fools of us all.
Linked is yet another article which begins by bemoaning the rise of content aggregators and the scam inherent in the operations of a site like reddit. That's not interesting. Yet in the later paragraphs things pick up as the author digs into the ultimate problem with "generative AI" – that we are watching it begin to enter into a feedback loop, training new models on "content" inadvertently created by other models, not on actual human work. This, the author points out, is effectively freezing AI models in time in 2023, the last year before generated content exploded and overwhelmed old-fashioned manual efforts.
Fear not, fellow internet spectator, as the brandensite will remain gloriously AI-free while we eat our popcorn watching web society burn to the ground before datacenter-backed climate change makes fools of us all.